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[Lauravonsmurf]

Bambi.... Is out.. Dodged a few does last week. This had nothing to fo with chickens but out with hubby. He is still ptetty ill but he did the Death Ride today.... All of it. So hanging out in Nevada tonight. He wanted to complete this race before surgery.

 

[ameliadanielle]

gamefowl are better anyway stick with them and you'll be happier. Lol. You would just have to separate roosters and a handful of hens. Most will just run off the inferior laying hens but the occasional game hen might have to be penned too.

Growing up my dad had ONLY game chickens and no other birds. Now he has a flock of guineas, and he's had some layers here or there but still mostly gamefowl. My first chicken when I was a kid was a roundhead rooster. To me that's a chicken. These chickens that won't go broody or raise babies are just something different for me. My whole adult life I haven't had any chickens, until my daughter was 3 and she wanted chickens. Of course she picked most of them out so we had laying hens and silkies. I've slowly gotten rid of the lawn ornaments and egg machines and I've been replacing them with more game types. Lol. Which, my daughter loves them, and she really likes the tails on the roosters so she's still happy. I'm mostly lost on bloodlines and what they're supposed to look like. They were such an every day part of life growing up, my dad had hundreds of them and the hens all look so similar. He knew what every single one of his birds were, but I never was able to get that down. Being out of it so long, I don't know anything anymore. I remember clearly what my dad's favorite rooster looked like when I was a kid and what his name was but cannot for the life of me remember what he was. Lol. It's hard too, because I see people all the time selling chickens and they either have no idea what they have or they're lying and hoping to catch a sucker. I wouldn't have bought the hens I bought today had I planned on breeding, because I didn't know the people, not knowing enough about the different bloodlines off hand I was really in no position to even know what they were or if they looked decent.

 

[ameliadanielle]

The grey hen definitely can't go in with other hens. We've tried this. We had the Leiper by himself for over a month, my dad brought over a ruble hen and the grey. Those two hens took turns slinging each other off the roost, fighting over top hen position. Thankfully my dad needed that ruble back so I didn't have to pen a hen alone. That grey hen had been penned alone for a few years, because my dad didn't have a rooster to go with her anymore. I'm kinda surprised she tolerates the Leiper as well as she does. They have little arguments but nothing bad. We also tried the Leiper and the grey in with the EEs before we brought mystery rooster home. She wouldn't let the EEs eat, even after clearly taking over the top spot under the rooster from the get go. That was very short lived before we moved her and the Leiper back into a little breeding pen together. She may end up alone though. I love her tail so much, I wish I could hatch out at least a few of her eggs. Most games around here I see don't have that fanned tail like she does. I'd need an incubator to get any of her babies, she lays so few eggs she can't fill a nest anymore.

 

[sdm111]

Growing up my dad had ONLY game chickens and no other birds. Now he has a flock of guineas, and he's had some layers here or there but still mostly gamefowl. My first chicken when I was a kid was a roundhead rooster. To me that's a chicken. These chickens that won't go broody or raise babies are just something different for me. My whole adult life I haven't had any chickens, until my daughter was 3 and she wanted chickens. Of course she picked most of them out so we had laying hens and silkies. I've slowly gotten rid of the lawn ornaments and egg machines and I've been replacing them with more game types. Lol. Which, my daughter loves them, and she really likes the tails on the roosters so she's still happy. I'm mostly lost on bloodlines and what they're supposed to look like. They were such an every day part of life growing up, my dad had hundreds of them and the hens all look so similar. He knew what every single one of his birds were, but I never was able to get that down. Being out of it so long, I don't know anything anymore. I remember clearly what my dad's favorite rooster looked like when I was a kid and what his name was but cannot for the life of me remember what he was. Lol. It's hard too, because I see people all the time selling chickens and they either have no idea what they have or they're lying and hoping to catch a sucker. I wouldn't have bought the hens I bought today had I planned on breeding, because I didn't know the people, not knowing enough about the different bloodlines off hand I was really in no position to even know what they were or if they looked decent.

welcome back to the other side of the tracks. The trail less traveled lol

 

[sdm111]

Can I ask what state you in, ameliadanielle?

 

[roosterhavoc]

Can I ask what state you in, ameliadanielle?

Not without a pic of yourself and a crow on your shoulder haha

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

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Okay those are striking looking... question are they a soft feather breed?

 

[sdm111]

I don't know what that means or is. I'm not that keen on technical stuff it's a lakenvelder

 

[roosterhavoc]

I don't know what that means or is. I'm not that keen on technical stuff it's a lakenvelder

I was thinking the same thing. All chicken feathers are soft as far as I know.

 

[sdm111]

Centra should soon explain it to us with a bunch of words without vowels